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Posted in Books, pictures, Statistics, University life with tags academic publisher, associate editor, Biometrika, Biometrika Trust, commercial editing, editor, large-scale statistical learning, peer review, refereeing, statistical inference, statistical machine learning, Statistics on February 1, 2024 by xi'an

$I am retiring today from co-editing Biometrika. It has been an exciting if somewhat stressing six years, with a constant flow of submissions to keep under control [2023 saw a record 580 submissions!], a task made somewhat easier during the COVID lockdowns as I could manage my schedule. I do feel most honoured to have been part of the Biometrika editorial board as I consider the journal a very top publication in statistics, with a highly elegant style. I am most sincerely grateful for the support of my co-editors, Paul Fearnhead and Omiros Papaspiliopoulos, the help provided by the managing editor, Rosalind Gesser, and for the hard and almost universally efficient work of the associate editors in handling the papers I sent them. Last but not least, I thank the authors for their near-universal understanding of our necessity to reject a large fraction of the submissions from an early stage, towards keeping the load of both associate editors and reviewers manageable. Farewell!$

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